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Press Release: Rent Hike Will Have Outsized Impact on Low-Income New Yorkers
Conditions, Crowding, and Cash on Hand: Key Points from Selected Initial Findings of the 2021 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS)
Plenty of Apartments…If You’ve Got Plenty of Money: Key Points from Selected Initial Findings of the 2021 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS)
Policing Our Way Out of School Shootings Won’t Work
Press Release: ABB/CSS Report: Pandemic Caused Disproportionate Economic Harm to Low-income Women in Workforce
Press Release: Statement: The Preservation Trust is Our Best Chance to Preserve Public Housing
Most New Yorkers Favor Clearing Conviction Histories
CSS’s 2021 Unheard Third Survey—the longest running survey of low-income communities in the nation—finds that a sizeable majority of New York City residents support clearing conviction histories after seven years, notably across political affiliations, race/ethnicity and gender, and across incomes.
Protecting New Yorkers from Medical Debt
Press Release: CSS Thanks New York State Lawmakers for Protecting Patients from Mounting Medical Debt
Mayor Adams Must Destroy NYPD Ill-Gotten DNA Samples
Press Release: CSS Thanks New York State Lawmakers for Protecting Patients’ Homes and Wages from Predatory Medical Collection Actions
Press Release: Hospitals Must Stop Putting Liens on Patients’ Homes and Garnishing Their Wages
Press Release: Good Cause Won’t Hurt Housing Supply in New York, New Report Finds
Legislative Memorandum in Support of A 7805A
We believe this is an urgent, one-time opportunity for the state to create a public-benefit corporation with the potential to access the full capital funding NYCHA needs to address its $40 billion backlog in infrastructural repairs and restore decent conditions to all of New York City’s public housing residents.
Testimony: Solving Homelessness Through Housing and Social Supports
The choice is simple: We can spend our public money on maintaining homelessness through thousands more street sweeps, or we can spend our public money on housing and social supports.